December 2022
12Dec

UK. Three reasons to get excited about pensions dashboards

Pensions dashboards have been a long time in the making, but the Department for Work and Pensions is now driving this project through to fruition. Over recent months there has been significant steps forward. The official timetable has been set and large occupational schemes and all types of personal pensions have to connect by next summer. A year of testing follows that and once more than 90 per cent of schemes are connected, dashboards will be launched onto an unsuspecting public. Well,...

December 12, 2022
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12Dec

Lagos approves N707m pension bailout for parastatals

The Commissioner for Establishments, Training And Pensions, Mrs Ajibola Ponnle, has said Lagos State government approved a bailout of N707.62m for some parastatals to pay the pensions of their retirees. She disclosed the bailout of the parastatals that could not raise the funds at the 98th batch retirement bond certificate presentation ceremony in Lagos on Friday. “In line with his administration’s vision to cater to its employees even in retirement, Mr Governor also recently approved the appeal for a bailout by...

December 12, 2022
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09Dec

EEUU. Joe Biden destina $36,000 millones a jubilados sindicalizados, ¿a quiénes beneficia?

El presidente Joe Biden otorgó casi 36.000 millones para ayudar a las pensiones de los empleados sindicalizados, según un anunció de este jueves. La infusión ayudará a un plan de pensión sindical con problemas financieros, evitando recortes severos de Rescate Americano, y es la mayor cantidad de ayuda federal proporcionada para un plan de pensiones, dijo el gobierno de Biden; además equivale a más de un tercio del recurso del Plan de Rescate. Muchos planes de jubilación sindicales han estado...

December 9, 2022
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09Dec

En 2050 se duplicará el número de adultos mayores que requieran pensión en México

Para el 2050, se prevé que la población de adultos mayores cuya economía dependa de programas de pensiones se incremente del 13.2% en 2020 al 28.9% en México. Pero no es un caso aislado, ni el más grave. Otros países como Australia, pasarán de 27.7 a 41.6; Canadá de 29.8 a 44.9; y Chile de 19.7 a 44.6 por cada 100 personas. Esto quiere decir que en menos de dos décadas se pondrá a prueba la capacidad de la fuerza...

December 9, 2022
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09Dec

¿Puede la economía del Perú soportar otra crisis política?

Una crisis política sacude nuevamente a Perú , provocando la destitución de Pedro Castillo como presidente y la disolución de su Congreso. Sin embargo, más allá de los conflictos, este país sudamericano puede presumir de avances en materia económica dentro de América Latina. Obviamente, la inestabilidad política puede acarrear problemas en el futuro, y ello dependerá de la duración y magnitud de los conflictos y las que deseen implementarse. La economía peruana tiene sustento en la explotación, procesamiento y exportación de...

December 9, 2022
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09Dec

Colpensiones es la entidad estatal más demandada de Colombia

El Gobierno nacional está preparando una reforma pensional que pretende que todos los colombianos, sin excepción, lleguen a la vejez con una pensión. Para que la promesa de campaña del presidente Gustavo Petro se cumpla, será indispensable el papel de Colpensiones; sin embargo, la Agencia Nacional de Defensa Jurídica del Estado (Andje) detalló que, actualmente, la entidad del Estado es la que más demandas recibe. De acuerdo con la Andje, con corte al 30 de septiembre, en Colombia hay 326.025...

December 9, 2022
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09Dec

President Joe Biden announces 36-billion federal aid struggling central states

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. has approved $36 billion in federal assistance to shore up a massive union multiemployer pension plan facing steep cuts. Teamsters Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Pension Fund, Chicago, will receive the funds under the Special Financial Assistance Program. The program, created by the American Rescue Plan Act that Democrats passed in March 2021, was designed to shore up struggling multiemployer pension plans through 2051. The PBGC estimates...

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09Dec

French government prepares high-stakes pension reform

The French government is consulting unions and potential allies to see if it could get a highly unpopular pension reform adopted by a fragmented parliament without causing mass protests that could paralyse the country. Details of the reform are expected to be unveiled on Dec. 15 but President Emmanuel Macron has made clear the French will have to work longer, with legal retirement age potentially pushed by as much as three years to 65. Opinion polls show the vast majority...

December 9, 2022
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09Dec

UK. Mystery of missing state pension credits deepens, as DWP and HMRC fob people off with a legion of excuses over incorrect records

Savers with holes in their state pension records are being stonewalled by staff in three separate Government departments, who have all refused to help them. After we revealed a mystery 'glitch' in the state pension system, many readers got in touch to say their valuable National Insurance credits were missing - contradicting the Government which had told us there was no indication of a wider issue. Eamon Campbell, pictured right, turned 66 in February and is two years short of getting...

December 9, 2022
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09Dec

Kenya. World Bank backs bid to raise NSSF contributions

The World Bank has backed Kenya’s efforts to increase pension contributions by workers to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) from the current Sh200 per month to six per cent of monthly pay. This is a boost to the Kenya Kwanza administration’s push for enhanced pension savings with employees’ monthly contribution to NSSF expected to rise ten-fold to Sh2,000, with employers expected to match this amount. President William Ruto’s push for increased contribution to the provident fund has already been endorsed...

December 9, 2022
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